Tales of Christmas Past

It's in the air, you feel it somehow and with each step you'll take around the city, you'll be able to see that one of the most precious times of the year is approaching: Christmas.

Waiting to meet dear friends and looking forward to go to Tollwood Winter Festival,

being on our way to Tollwood,

laughing, sharing stories of the previous weeks, it all happened in the blink of an eye...
Then decorating a real Christmas tree for the first time in more than 20 years was unbelievably awesome. It's amazing how a tree can make us all smiley and happy!

For some of us, for a couple of hours, all the problems faded and I stopped, like for the first time, to admire a tiny gift which I received many years ago from my special one:

It was such a nice surprise when my pretties bloomed

and I finally had time to take it all in:

Another surprise was to find out that we actually invented angel hair:

This was one of the Christmas Tree Guardians:

The sun also kept the tree company:

Some of the walks in the park made me feel like I was in a fairy tale:

In one of the days prior to Christmas we went to the cinema:

Then the New Year started with an unexpected gift:

I guess one of the Tollwood Winter festival visits clearly foresaw the future

and there's no surprise how the people dear to me know how much I appreciate meaningful tiny gifts:

It was the Christmas when I finally had a little time to capture an essence of my birthday:

I don't know if it's the snow outside or the fact that I still have on my left the Christmas tree, or the fact that My Sys wrote to me and I had no time to reply to her (sometimes when she types it literally feels like Christmas) but it still feels a lot like Christmas and I can't wait to grab some friends on Friday and go out sleighing, finally, after 2 years!

Luckily there are still 354 days until the next Xmas... I'll say there's plenty of time to prepare, right?!

Note: Xmas tree decorations - Glass balls and glass icicles - were bought from the Bazar at Tollwood Winter Festival, more precisely from a family owned business from Rattenberg, established in 1820.

Where - Muenchen;
When - beginning of December 2015 - end of January 2016;
With - Nikon 1 V2 (50mm f/1.8G; 50mm - ISO 160; 1/6400-1/30s - f/1.8; -0.7-0EV).